I'd like to second the suggestion that comment suggesting that there be a notice about where posts about how the server is acting belong -- I have been wondering for a while about why the server was so slow, and then wondering why it was no longer so slow, but it was only by chance that I came upon a post that directed me to the AK News forum. In retrospect, its an obvious place, but I'd never noticed that it existed.
I think some of the posts were crankier than they needed to be be, but probably the posters were frustrated that they didn't know how to let Ak know, and didn't know how to find out what was up.